St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-12
BEAUTIFUL SUBURBS.
Suburbs and Parks That Have
Grown Reautif'uI the Past Year

Grown Beautiful the Past Year.
There comes time in the history of
all large cities when, either Oh account
of the rise in land values within their
limits or from the superior locations as
regards health and other comforts TO be
found in the country near at hand,
suburban towns spring up, thrive, in
crease in wealth and population, and
finally become a part of the city in gov
ernment, as they certainly are in in
tereSt. Boston has her Cambridge,
Waltham, Charleston. Medford, Dor
chester. Maiden. Reading. the Highlands
and host OF other suburban towns.
New York city has Harlem. Y0nkers,
Nyack. Newburg, Mott Haven, Eliza
beth, ClaremOnt, Kingsbridge. Morris
town and many others. Philadelphia
has Germantown, Norristown, Frank
ford, Bristol, Camden, Chestnut
Hill, Bryn Mawr, CheltOn Hill, Green
wich, West Philadelphia and numerous
others within easy reach of the city: and
st. Paul has InVcr Grove, Lincoln Park,
South st. Paul. South Park, Burlington
Heights, st. Paul Park, Newport. Glad
stone and North st. Paul, all outside
the city limits and prosperous manu-
featuring and residence towns and viii
lagos within easy reach Of the business
portion of the city, no one Of them being
more than six miles from the union
depot. The year ROW near its close
has witnessed. almost wholly. the de-
velOpmtnt IF these places. and seen an
expenditure Of not less than Ss;.000.000
in buildings alone IN the towns men
toned. North St. Paul dates its exist
ence from Nav l, 'S7. st. Paul Park,
I,.l,- 4 Il
coin Park. Gladstone and Burlington
Heights have all sprung into existence
in the last six months. So rapid a
growth has certainly never before been
witnessed in the Northwest. Towns
composed of log ShantieS. ShackS and
hutS have risen in week, but towns of
brick and stone need time to grow.
Were the cost of grading the streets,
building new lines of railway and water
works, laying sidewalks and other eX-
penSeS incident to the laying out of a
new town figured up, the amount would
be simply astounding. 1t certainly
would not be less than SS.000,000. 1t has
taken no insignificant sum TO turn
dozen or more of rolling and
uneven farms into as many pros
porous and enterprising additions in fIl-
ture to the SANITY City. Why, in North
miles of streets were graded in the first
three months of its existence. These
half dozen places are monument
''mOre lasting than brass to Western
push and enterprise.
None of these towns are within the
limits of st. Paul, and 50 the building
operations in each are not shown on the
books of the building inspector. The
records of the buildings actually put up
in each have been collected by per-
sOnal inspection of the work
done, and, it is believed. do
not overestimate it in any way.
But. inasmuch as ali these improve
mentS have been made by st. Paul
capital and are mainly the factories of
St Paul manufacturers and the resi-
dences of their employees, they are very
properly included in the record of the
city's growth. This uneXampled growth
of the city in the way of suburban
town has not been of the mushroom
style, nor is it the result of any care
fully planned and skillfully worked
scheme TO boom them into prominence.
the fortunate spectators dropping out
as soon as their pockets were well
filled. On the contrary they have
grown in that steady, conservative style
that has
AlN Al = DlSIlNGIlSHED.
and is largely responsible for the pres
ent prosperity and business slOlidity of
st. Paul.
In compiling this record the building
inspectors books have been taken for
the firSt-eleven months, while the esti-
mate for December is placed at S400, 600,
which is probably far too low, as almost
enough permits were in sight TO make
up this amount when Inspector john
son named the figure. Il think" said
he, THAT 500, 600 is a very fair estimate
for December. In case the architects
complete the plans for several large
buildings OH which they are now hard
at work, the amount will much exceed
that figure" TO the amounts for which
permits have been issued p per cent
has been added, giving a total of s7,2l4,
ST. expended in buildings alone in the
city proper during the year. No one
takes out a permit for Il more costly
building than he proposes to erect, and
then there are a certain class of i'm
prOvementS in old buildings for which
no permits are issued: hence this p per
cent must be added to arrive at the true
value. add % per cent. said Inspec-
tor Johnson, ''unleSS You intend TO
swell the record don't believe you will
be per cent from the truth.
Besides the buildings for which per
mits have been issued and appear in the
record of this year, there are number
of blocks and buildings, the permits for
which We're iSSGrd last year, but as the
major part of the work has been
done in lSS3, the! really ueioAc 20
the years record. Prominent among
them 3re tl:a new city and county bailt.-
Ing. t,le Dayton Avenue Presbyterian
church, The Central Park NJ. Z. church.
the GL"E;E building and many other
smaller structures which 90 10 increase
the siIai total very considerably. On
The wl:U.c the year has been ore of
wonderful prosperity and uneXampiei
progress in everything that gees TO
make city great, prOsrerCu; AID pow
n1.f1,l